Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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970570 | The Journal of Socio-Economics | 2006 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
If gifts are reciprocated in the future, intra-household distribution of resources will depend on premarital gifts such as dowry, bride-price and parents' gifts to a child such as schooling and nurturing. If such social norms of reciprocity exist, parental income effects on their child's human capital will be asymmetric, and the effect will depend on the amount of intra-household transfers made before childbirth.
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Authors
Dipankar Purkayastha,